Living with a children's author isn't as easy as it looks!

I always try my very best. Well, maybe not my very best, but I always try hard. Well, maybe not hard, but I always try. Well, maybe not always, but sometimes. So, yeah – Once in a while, I try a little bit.

I try not to get caught in the soccer net.

Close enough…unless…

NO!

I try to figure out how my bed works…

Nailed it.

And the chair at the library…

Backwards? No. This seems right…

I try to stay where Mom can see me so I won’t get lost.

And I try to play gently with my toys and not accidentally rip their heads off.
Mom tries her best waaaay more than I do. She has to! That’s what writers do. She writes, revises, submits, mind writes, edits, gets ideas, rewrites, reads, critiques, does author visits…

…drinks coffee, takes me to the park,

cuddles with me, teaches me, goes shopping, talks on the phone, throws my baseball, has lunch with her friends…. Wait. What? I think I got off the topic there for a minute….

Huh???

Anyway, The point is – she tries, just like she’s supposed to. She also hopes for the best and prepares for Book2 and/or Ebook2.

Wow Cupcake! We love the way you dealt with that toy. Hard work always pays off so we know your mum has good things coming to her. A machine that gives you treats when you want them? We need one of those.
Love Monty and Chicken 🐾

That is an inspirational quote indeed, Cupcake and your explanation is very clear and at least you did not end up in tuna…this time…MOL 😀 And..did the machine answer? Pawkisses for a Happy Day 🙂 ❤
Loved the video btw!

Thanks, Little B. Mom still thinks if she lets me that I will try to walk through the net every day. Hmmm. Maybe… The machine didn’t cooperate. I could stare in the hole all day and nothing happens till Mom looks at me through her phone and presses the button. I’m like an animal over here. Wait. What?

Thanks, G. You asked the question of the century. Where the heck IS book 2?? Sometimes, I make myself dizzy and goofy when I shake my toys too much. Then I need a nap, plus Mom says the word knucklehead.

Try try try is what Momwithoutpaws does. Sends her articles in for them to be sent back by the editor wanting her to make changes. Lately, the editor has been happy with her work and has not sent them back. Even gave her Kudos!
Momwithoutpaws tries to promote herself and her self published books. Doesn’t hurt to try.

Great attitude, F. It would NEVER hurt to try. I am happy that even your mom’s picky editor can’t find anything to pick at in her work lately. That means she’s doing it right! Mom would LOVE to get paid to write. Your mom is her idol.

Amen beautiful. And you have a Petzi Treat Cam?! I’m so green with jealous. All of us anipals here at the Hotel Thompson have been trying to talk dad into getting one for us. He keeps saying no because he’s always here with us. But hey mom’s not, right? XOXO – Bacon

What a great message that we all can take note of…if we don’t try, we won’t fail but we won’t discover anything new either. You have a treat tin….you lucky Woofie. We have to depend on mom who is not always thinking treats, like we are.

Wow Cupcake – the way you shook that stuffed animal is impressive – Bravo! I hope you were able to create a stuffing snow storm in the house 🙂 Are you part Rat Terrier, by any chance? ~ Wags and woofs, Kona

Such a good pupster, Cupcake. Sam and I think you have it all over that the stuffie-playing department. One question though…do you need a massage after all that head tossing to keep the kinks at bay? 😉

Cupcake, mommy said if she had a woofie like you, she’d have one to pair up with me. She & I both love seeing you and hearing about your life! Especially certain things…as with your riveting soccer net experiences, and the bed experience you shared, and yes, you sure did nail it! …yes, you nailed it indeed Cupcake. By the way, your playing with your toys was a four star production! There was action (I’ll say!) drama aplenty, pathos and a happy ending (I feel sure). XXOO –Your Kitty Furriend

Thanks, KI. I think your mom and you and I would get along great. Shaking my toy did have a happy ending. Nothing fell off his little toy body. That is not to say that last night when Mom was ignoring me (how dare she?) I didn’t chew off part of Snoopy’s ear. I’m pretty sure it was an accident.

Mom always says “Failure is not the falling down, it is the staying down,” we think that is kind of the same thing. You have to give it a try and try and try again. Not always easy though. But when I persever, I usually can get the cat food down from the counter. – Sofie Bear

That is one great quote. And it is just so true. So glad you had such a good time with your toy. That is what toys are for, after all.
The donkeys kind of make their own toys. They love to chew on sticks and carry them around. They also play with buckets and carry them around too. One time they carried a bucket across the whole pasture.